The Sodder Family: A Short Story

The world is full of unanswered questions and mysteries. Some of the mysteries can be intriguing, while others can be terrifying. One example of a bone-chilling mystery is about the Sodder family. The most horrifying cases are when they go unanswered. This was the situation for the Sodder family. To get the full details of this story, we have to go back to the very beginning. A man named George Sodder moved to America from Italy when he was thirteen in 1908. George’s older brother accompanied him on the trip, but immediately left George and went back to Italy. George worked as a water boy on the railroad until he was old enough to run his own trucking business. George walked into a local story one day and met the owner’s daughter, Jennie.
George attempted to run back into the house and save them. George tried breaking a window to get into the house. He sliced his hands and arms up and blood was running down his arms. George couldn’t see anything through the fire and smoke that covered the entire house. George raced around the house to find the ladder that he kept propped against the side. The ladder was strangely missing, though. George’s next idea was to drive his truck up to the house and climb up to window on the truck. To his horror, the trucks wouldn’t start, even though they worked perfectly the day before. They didn’t have any water to put the fire out with either. Their five children were helplessly trapped inside the unforgiving flames, and they couldn’t do anything about it. The family was doing everything in their power to save their children. Their daughter Marion ran to their neighbor’s house in order to contact the Fire Department. She couldn’t get an operator to respond, though. The neighbor drove to town and tracked down Chief Morris. The fire chief contacted the rest of the fire department and arrived at the house by 8 a.m. Even though the fire station was only two and a half miles away, it took several hours for the firefighters to arrive. At this point, the Sodder’s home was only a pile of
The family started to remember strange events that happened before and on that tragic night. A few months earlier, a man appeared at their house asking about hauling work. During his visit, he pointed to two fuse boxes and said that those boxes would cause a fire someday. The Sodder family didn’t believe him since they just had the fuse boxes checked out. Around the same time, another man tried to sell the family life insurance, but George turned him down. The man became enraged and threaten George by saying his house was going to burn down and his children would be destroyed. The family didn’t take the threats seriously and, at the time, wrote the man